
'WINTER' FUN The strength of this New Jersey-set indie is in its chilly silences
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Limited Release: Apr 08, 2005; Rated: R; Length: 93 Minutes; Genre: Drama; With: Anthony LaPaglia and Aaron Stanford
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In Winter Solstice, writer- director Josh Sternfeld takes the prefab indie-flick building blocks uncommunicative families, impacted grief, and suburban stagnation and constructs something quite marvelous: a realistic drama that looks and feels as inevitably true and moving as a good documentary. Understatement is Sternfeld's strength: Assembling muted vignettes about a bewildered New Jersey widower (Anthony LaPaglia), his two dammed-up teenage sons (Tadpole's Aaron Stanford and Storytelling's Mark Webber, both outstanding), and a neighbor (Allison Janney) who offers sunshine, the filmmaker is at his finest when he employs silence and inaction. What doesn't happen is more moving than what does.
Posted Apr 06, 2005
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